Competing interests

 
  • Developer: make the user happy. Present data quickly and reliably
  • It's all about the application
  • DBA: keep the data safe, consistent and available. Reduce resources and requests

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DBA

  • DBA: primary concern should always be the data.
  • Integrity, security, speed, convienence
  • Resources: fewer connections, less data is better
  • The simpler things are, the better.

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Developer

  • Developer wants to do interesting things with it
  • The database as a black box (or as a system call)
  • Not ideal, unless documented
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